Juniper SRX routing on active/active networks

The differences between the VMWare VM Hardware Versions are fairly well documented across the Configuration Maximum documentation produced by VMware. Some one asked me if there is any difference as far as a user would be concerned, specificaly was it worth upgrading a VM for any performance gains and simply I had no idea. The […]

I have been working with a platform design for a customer and came across a situation I had not encountered before and thought it might be worth making some notes, this has been boiled down to the essential bits to make life easier It’s a VMware backed infrastructure with Juniper SRX firewalls; fine The customer […]

Step1: Connect The default IP of the device is 192.168.88.1/24, so assign an IP to your device on this range, make sure you have a copy of WinBox available 1st: http://www.mikrotik.com/download. Ping 192.168.88.1 to ensure you can communicate and then use WinBox to start a session Step 2: Upgrade Firmware Check System>PackageList, or open […]

In my case the PFSense router has a static WAN IP at a datacentre PFSence.domain.com is just an A record and the Draytek has a dynamic IP from a basic internet connection, Draytek.domain.com is a Dynamic DNS address. The PFSense Router Under System > Advanced > Miscellaneous, Tick the Prefer older IPsec SAs Apply the setting and create a new IPsec […]

This weekend I have been attempting to migrate an exchange 2003 server (SBS2003) to a new shiny Exchange 2013 and came up against some oddities I hadn’t expected. Previously when migrating from Exchange 2003 it has been to Exchange 2010 (and the odd Exchange 2007), the procedure is fairly simple, Export the messages from the […]